WEEK 4 Jan 15th to 21st 2001

   NORWEGIAN WOLF-HUNT TO BE DECIDED IN FEBRUARY

   The directorate of administration of nature will in February decide whether or not wolves shall be shot and subsequently how many. Several environmental organizations have stated that they will appeal a shooting decision and therefore the ball will eventually find its way to the Norwegian minister of Environment Siri Bjerke.
   In related news it's now clear that the wolf cub found dead in September was poisoned, the Veterinarian Institute in Trondheim is stating in a brief.
   The mayor Erling Myhre of the now well-known infamous county of Rendalen in the Osterdalen valley, where the two wolf-tribes are at risk, has issued a warning to his constituents to not let themselves be interviewed by journalists. He says "there will be a lot of heat" during a shooting and that the entire community easily could be seen as "backwards" and "rural crackpots" and "wolf-haters" to the unenlightened outside world. Myhre has for years argued for "a complete eradication of Wolves on Norwegian soil".